Trumbo movie: Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren superb as left-wing screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and right-wing gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. Trumbo movie review: Highly entertaining ‘history lesson’ toplining an outstanding Bryan…
Veterans Day Movies: George C. Scott in ‘Patton.’ Veterans Day movies on TCM: From ‘The Sullivans’ to ‘Patton’ On Nov. 11, Turner Classic Movies is presenting five war or war-related…
Shirtless Kellan Lutz in The Legend of Hercules, with Gaia Weiss. Kellan Lutz ‘Hercules’ movie: Zero percent Rotten Tomatoes approval rating Starring Kellan Lutz, best known as the hunky and…
Gay Movie Scenes: Paul America in Andy Warhol’s My Hustler. Controversial Gay Movie Scenes at LACMA: Andy Warhol & Gus Van Sant + Jean Genet Whether or not you find…
Weird stuff happened at the most recent MTV Movie Awards ceremony: Justin Timberlake grabbed Mila Kunis’ breasts, Mila Kunis grabbed Justin Timberlake’s crotch, Robert Pattinson kissed Taylor Lautner instead of…
Royal romance movies: Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer discover sprightly love and excruciating heartbreak in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1927 silent classic The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. As a William &…
Corin Redgrave, member of the British acting dynasty, fell ill on Easter Sunday and died on April 6 at St. George’s Hospital in London. He was 70. Redgrave had been…
Hypnosis and crime: Michael Redgrave and Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door. April 4 update: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch…
https://youtu.be/ojo3I59Gn6cVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: CARMEN MIRANDA - O QUE É QUE A BAIANA TEM (https://youtu.be/ojo3I59Gn6c) Carmen Miranda – known as the “Brazilian Bombshell” in the U.S.;…
Sessue Hayakawa on Turner Classic Movies Tuesday, June 3, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: TCM continues with the not-to-be-missed “Asian Images in Film” series, with several silents and a couple…
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Bernard Gordon, a blacklisted screenwriter during the McCarthy era and a leader of the protest against the honorary Oscar awarded director (and informant) Elia Kazan,…
Douglas Fairbanks in The Iron Mask. Last Remaining Seats: North by Northwest & Roman Holiday The Los Angeles Conservancy (website) will present the 21st Annual Last Remaining Seats film series…
Otto Preminger film noir Laura with Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” will be hosted by filmmaker…
Model and sometime actress Doe Avedon Siegel, best known for her marriages to photographer Richard Avedon and to Dirty Harry movie director Don Siegel, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She…
As the title implies, BearManor Media’s The History of Independent Cinema covers the century-long development of – American – filmmaking outside the big-studio lots. Now, who were those independents? Well,…
Front row (left to right): Herbert Biberman, attorneys Martin Popper and Robert W. Kenny, Albert Maltz, Lester Cole. Middle row: Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Samuel Ornitz. Back…
John Frankenheimer and Dalton Trumbo’s anti-Semitism drama The Fixer is ruined by a preachy and simple-minded script, and by badly miscast lead Alan Bates.